I'm creating an Amsterdam street scene and have found that Poser gets confused if I put too many models in a scene so I'm switching to Maya. I'm using a model of a street tram that's in 3ds format. It imports fine into Poser. I installed the 3dsimport.lib into the Maya plug-ins folder as I figured that's how I could get Maya to import it, but Maya ignores the 3dsimport.lib. So I exported the tram from Poser as an OBJ but Maya ignored the file or gave an unkown error on import. I did find a solution though, I downloaded Wingz3d for the Mac which opened the 3ds file and exported the tram as an OBJ, which Maya opened. Thanks for your response, it led me to some good threads on the Maya forum.